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To: one_less who wrote (59826)	9/25/2002 11:25:26 AM
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Here is the dictionary definition of a solipsist: Main Entry: so.lip.sism Pronunciation: 'sO-l&p-"si-z&m, 'sä- Function: noun Etymology: Latin solus alone + ipse self Date: 1874 : a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing - so.lip.sist /'sO-l&p-sist, 's@-l&p-, s&-'lip-/ noun - so.lip.sis.tic /"sO-l&p-'sis-tik, "s@-/ adjective - so.lip.sis.ti.cal.ly /-ti-k(&-)lE/ adverb And this is one paragraph from the interesting link at the bottom: The proposition 'I am the only mind which exists' makes sense only to the extent to which it is expressed in a public language, and the existence of such language itself implies the existence of a social context. Such a context exists for the hypothetical last survivor of a nuclear holocaust, but not for the solipsist. A non-linguistic solipsism is unthinkable, and a thinkable solipsism is necessarily linguistic. Solipsism therefore presupposes the very thing which it seeks to deny: the very fact that solipsistic thoughts are thinkable in the first instance implies the existence of the public, shared, intersubjective world which they purport to call into question. utm.edu

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